AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY IN EXTENSION & RESEARCH

Extension: Devise & implement the Buckeye Sports Turf Program and disseminate sports turf research to the industry. Currently writing an Online class for groundskeepers & athletic field managers. Manage a website with 2800 subscribers. Carry out 25-30 in-state visits to athletic fields each year, manage the annual sports turf short course, produce an annual sports turf calendar, speak at several in-state workshops and seminars, serve on several industry boards (in and out of state), write Extension/Outreach grants and procure funding.

Syngenta. 2010-1011. (Role PI.)
- Effects of liquid mefenoxam and acibenzolar formulations on the establishment rate, turf health and disease resistance of cool-season turf
- Effects of granular and liquid trinexapac-ethyl formulations on the quality and growth of Lolium perenne and Agrostis stolonifera
- Effects of trinexapac-ethyl formulations and actiguard on the quality and health of Lolium perenne

McCoy, E., Sherratt, P.J., and Street J.R. (2004), Golf course and athletic field soils. Soils in Landscaped Commercial Areas, edited by Joyce Scheyer. Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK. http://www.eolss.net

Sherratt, P.J., Street, J.R, and Gardner, D.S (2005) Effects of biomass accumulation on the playing quality of a Kentucky bluegrass stabilizer system used for sports fields. Agronomy Journal. 97:1107-1114